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...read himself out of the 1944 Presidential race. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. who will never forgive Willkie for taking the G.O.P. nomination away from him in 1940, had withdrawn in favor of Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker. Michigan's potent Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg had also withdrawn, in favor of nobody in particular...
Immediately moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...
...public support, there is still hope that, before next March, some modification of the Ruml Plan will finally become law. One pay-as-you-go bill has already been introduced in the House by Ways & Means Committeeman Donald H. McLean (Rep., N.J.). In the Senate Finance Committee, Republican members Vandenberg and Taft and Democrats Byrd and Chairman George all favor some form of pay-as-you-go. Last week never-say-die Beardsley Ruml was once again campaigning: "Nothing can be gained," cried portly, ebullient Mr. Ruml, "by arguing that people ought to have saved the tax on last year...
...leaders called for cooperation. House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., glad at last to retire from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, asked for a joint Democratic-Republican House and Senate Committee on the conduct of the war. A similar proposal came from Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...
...Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., advocate of Senate legislation to create a joint bi-partisan committee to consult with President Roosevelt on prosecution of the war, said he was "perfectly amazed" by Mass' assertions...